Luxuries
April 26th, 2008I direct you to this opinion piece on John McCain’s shameful handling of the Fair Pay Act, Dear Reader. Know what’s one of the worst things about poverty — living in poverty, falling into poverty, being born into poverty? You only get one or two opportunities to break free of it, and if you fail you’re done. Someone with money can turn to their family and their family’s friends and screw up until they’re forty yet wind up President of the United States. A poor person does not have that luxury, and for that reason it is absolutely shameful for John McCain and all other opponents of fair pay legislation to take the position that they do. We must help working-class people so that they may be able to raise themselves and the nation they comprise.